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Word: reggan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like southern France. Then the Sahara began. Crossing the Sahara nowadays is a comparatively safe matter. The French run passenger buses over a fairly well-defined trail. But the two principal way-stations are not marked on any map. Bordj Estienne, an elaborate mud fort near the oasis of Reggan, boasts (and not idly) an American bar, French table d"hÓte, illustrated French and English magazines less than ten days old, bedrooms with electric light. Bidon 5 is a gasoline pump, "a white-enamelled pillar identical with those you see along any road in Long Island or Westchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sahara, 1932 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

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